Exhausted B cells fail to fight HIV
Monday, July 14, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
HIV tires out the cells that produce virus-fighting proteins known as antibodies, according to a human study that will be published online July 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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